[Radio Ruderham]

Next Update; Thursday / Friday

ALL CHANNELS HAVE SYMBOL RATE OF 27.5 AND AN F.E.C. OF 2/3. EXCEPT WHERE LISTED.

11.720 H has been Re-opened with a copy of 12.148 H

I. D.…….………..Freq; ………..……..INFO

51006.............11.662 H No Signal present. (Thanks Digi man)
1871………………12.382 H showing The Community Channel
3310………………10.729 V Showing Black level in 16:9
50108……………11.307 V No Signal present (Thanks Ian Cleverly)
50109……………11.307 V No Signal present (Thanks Ian Cleverly)
50181……………11.307 V Showing Simply Shopping 638**
4164………………11.508 H Showing Fashion TV with Info
5719………………12.324 V Showing Boomerang (for +1?)
52567……………11.426 V Showing The Adult Channel
4200………………11.343 V Blue Screen. (Otis reports this channel is showing bars no tone, not seen with a digibox)
1840………………12.226 H showing Sky Mix (Thanks Ian Cleverly)
52107…………….11.264 H S.R.22000 fec 2/3 Bars & Tone plus info (Life tv?)
9604………………10.744 H SR:22.000 FEC:5/6 Showing RTE TWO (Thanks Otis)
9339………………11.508 H Blocked.
50686……………..11.585 H No Signal present.
51117……………..11.681 V No Signal present.
1430………………..12.304 H No Signal present
2gbstp.......………11.662 H No Signal present

**50181…………..(11.307 V) is also on 11.488 V showing duplicate of 52536 Showing Simply Shopping (638)
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SP1………………..12.109 H[For sky sports]
SP2………………..12.265 H[For sky sports]
SP3………………..12.109 H[For sky sports]
SP Xtra……………12.148 H[For sky sports]
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Recent Interactive Additions;
Ava test………….. 11.546 H Showing Avago.(Thanks Ian Cleverly)
csoT………………11.546H Mosiac
Q_I………………..12.031 H for QVC Interactive ?
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All these channels are blocked
There are still a lot of “New” Channels have appeared up and down the Txp’s,
Some are for interactive applications and others are new channels.
Try these ;- 10.773 H/\ 11.527 V /\ 11.508H /\ 11.307 V /\
PTPCad3, PTPCad4
The Txp 11.508 H has these listed on it;
EIA2 Test 3,4,5 & 6 I haven’t seen before,
also 5ADT,8N2,1784 and 1787,have been around for a while but were “hidden.”

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Channel4 have two new regions testing South and Midlands,
although I thought they were already in the original C4 line-up
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{Blank}………… ..12.265 H with, 'Programme is not available' (Thanks Craigsteele2001)
7521….........………12.441 H Showing “William Road” Bars & Tone
3020……………….12.422 H Showing “William Road” Bars & Tone
cet…………………12.109 H. Sky Sports 2 Eire.
There are plus one hour applications along with some for Cable added to 11.740 V
There are applications for E4 and Channels for Audio Described (I think) at 12.168 V.

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Radio Channels

A few bits of Radio News :-

 The BBC is commissioning three new DAB-enabled transmitters in Northern Ireland. The first two will come on stream in late spring and the third will follow in the summer.(From the Radio Academy)

 Radio Tatras Internationalis due to launch on Saturday April 9th.. It will be broadcasting from Slovakia to over 40 million people on AM/FM in central Europe, to the remainder of Europe via satellite, and around the world on the internet. No details of frequencies have been announced so far, but there is a tentative schedule online. One of the Directors of RTI is Eric Wiltsher, who will be bringing his Media Zoo programme to the station. RTI gives its address as 1 Northumberland Avenue, Trafalgar Square, London WC2N 5BW, United Kingdom. E-mail: info@rti.fm. (From Media Network)

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These From swine1 in our “Coming Soon Section”…...

11th April
Life TV +2 [Now Testing]

18th April
Fashion TV (Return) [Now Testing]
TG4 (in Northern Ireland)
RTE1 (in Northern Ireland)
RTE2 (in Northern Ireland)

25th April
Bad Movies
Matinee Movies
Vegas 24/7
Travel Channel 3

May 12th
Discovery Home & Leisure Re-brand to Real Time

September
Faze TV (See story in Newsie bits)

October
More4

Autumn
Sky EPG overhaul

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Newsie Bits

1. Sky's electronic programme guide (EPG) will get an overhaul. As the number of channels on the digital satellite platform has exploded, so too has the need to re-order and re-group them on the EPG. The 'old' EPG had 10 categories of programming in the main menu. The new EPG will re-group Sky's 480 channels—340 more than the number available when Sky Digital launched in 1998—over 16 categories, with new categories for lifestyle, religion, shopping, gaming and adult channels, and new separate categories for documentaries and radio stations. The new EPG will have two menu pages instead of one. According to Broadcast magazine, broadcasters were due to be told this week which new category will house their channel. Some channels will have to be re-numbered. Broadcast said channel providers would be able to review which category they are allocated over the summer before the new EPG line-up is finally agreed by the end of the year.Broadcast quoted a Sky spokesman as saying: "These enhancements are designed to improve navigability for viewers and to assist Sky to meet continued demand for EPG slots. Better signposting will help make it easier for viewers to find the programme and channels that they want to watch."
The EPG menu will have two new genres;
Lifestyle & Culture along with Gaming & Dating.
The confirmed EPG menu will appear as follows:
1 All channels
2 Entertainment
3 Lifestyle & Culture
4 Movies
5 Sports
6 News
7 Documentaries
8 Kids
9 Music
0 More (next page)
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1 Radio
2 Shopping
3 Religion
4 International
5 Gaming & dating
6 Specialist
7 Adult
(From:- Broadcastnow.co.uk and DTG.)See also:- www.media247.co.uk/skydigita...ive_radio_3.php

2. D.S. reader, Tumble weed tells that Men & Motors is to close along with their Web Forum. See Here:- http://forum.digitalspy.co.uk/board/...d.php?t=205875

3. The analogue Switch off is getting nearer, a full transcript of the Westminster Debate is available Here:- http://www.publications.parliament.u...50315h03_head0

4. D.S Reader, Abrardh1 Tells us that NSAT not returning for a further 6 months

5. Sit-up TV is launching a third shopping channel on Sky Digital and ntl.Speed Auction TV will stage auctions lasting for a maximum of four minutes, which the broadcaster hopes will attract a younger audience than sister channels bid TV and price-drop TV. Sit-up have disclosed plans to launch a Bad Movies channel, offering some of the worst Hollywood has to offer when it launches on the Sky platform from this spring. Sit-Up is investing £5m in the channel and a second new channel offering, Matinee. From:- www.dtg.org

6. Steve Bennett CEO of the Factory Outlet group of companies has announced the creation of a Dedicated Diamond Channel that will launch between 4-8 weeks. (From:- Shopping telly.com)

7. Bridges TV, An American Muslim lifestyle station are looking into launching on SKY in March/April. Details:- http://www.bridgestv.co.uk

8. India's public broadcaster Doordarshan is planning a TV channel for people of Indian descent living in Britain, the Central Chronicle has reported. India's broadcasting corporation Chief Executive Officer of Prasar Bharati, which oversees Doordarshan, KS Sarma said, "If all goes well, the new British channel will take off in around three months' time”.

9. Ofcom's proposed analogue switch off timetable has BorderTV, Westcountry and HTV Wales regions completing switchover to digital in 2008, with all other regions completing the transition by the end of 2012.

10. Hot on the heels of Ofcom's digital switchover timetable being published, consumer electronics giant Sony has announced all its television receivers larger than 26 inches will be digital-only. Sony said consumers were continuing to purchase analogue TV sets, and they are buying them at twice the rate of any digital adapters needed to convert them.

11. D.S. Reader David McH tells of an email he received from Crime & Investigation Network in Australia. They say that they had launched in Australia on the 1st January, 2005 and were the first country in the world to premiere the channel. They also believe that BSKYB are considering launching this channel. A date has not been decided on at this point, however it is likely to be sometime at the end of 2005. More on the Channel :- www.citv.com.au

12. Channel 4's new factual station More4 will go live in October across all digital platforms, not to compete with, but augment the main C4 channel, it will have a programming budget of £30millions possibly increased to £57 millions

13. Channel 4 is reportedly considering moving entertainment subscription channel E4 onto the free-to-air Freeview platform. E4 is committed to Sky until 2008 and also has carriage deals with cable operators NTL and Telewest, but is said to be looking at moving E4 perhaps as early autumn. By that time it hopes Freeview will be big enough to generate sufficient advertising revenues to sustain the channel. Broadcast magazine

14. ITV is planning to launch ITV4, to add to its existing portfolio of ITV1, ITV2 and ITV3.

15. Sky is planning a new Sky One spin-off channel.

16. Al-Jazeera intends to launch a new English language news channel by the end of this year.

17. India's religious channel Aastha TV is looking at launching in the UK later this year. Aastha broadcasts programming in Hindi, Gujarati and English. This year, the channel has plans to air locally originated programming as well. (From: www.media247.co.uk/skydigital )

18. VC; The company behind the two channels, ( Amore & Horror Channel) is planning to launch at least one other new network, no further.details about the third service are known. Amore, may not now start till later this year and will be a stand alone service. (from TELE-satellite)

19. That TV http://www.thattv.co.uk website has now been updated stating that the channel will be launching later this year. (Thanks Lunar)

20. H2o TV to launch summer 2005 .Details:- www.h2o.tv

21. Technology TV is coming in October. For Full details:- http://www.manchesteronline.co.uk/b...technology.html and licensing details:-http://www.ofcom.org.uk/static/tvlicensing/cs/806.htm (Thanks OTIS)

22. Rapture TV is still hoping to return to UK screens. Complete with new programmes. (From :- http://news.rapturetv.com)

23. Channel East is set to relaunch and make a return to Sky Digital.

24. News channel Aaj Tak plans to launch soon.

25. Fuel launch seems to have been put back to “the Spring” whenever that is, according to Media 24/7. I have also found an American web-site www.fuel.tv

26. Faze tv ( http://fazetv.co.uk/ ) a gay lifestyle channel is on the cards for a September Launch (From DTG & http://www.media247.co.uk/skydigital...ifestyle_c.php

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HiDef TV – HDTV SECTION

 Sony has revealed that their 2004 range of "HD Capable" large screen LCD and plasma TV displays - which feature analogue component inputs instead of the "HD Ready" HDMI/HDCP inputs - will be able to be used with Sky's high definition television service when it launches. Press release::- http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/article/ds19787.html

 British Sky Broadcasting has appointed Thomson as the initial manufacturer of the set-top box for its forthcoming High Definition Televisionservice and confirmed that it is on track to launch in 2006. Speaking at the DVB World conference in Dublin, BSkyB's Chief Operating Officer, Richard Freudenstein, revealed that Sky's HDTV box would feature a similar Personal Video Recorder capability to the existing Sky+ box. Freudenstein said that offering PVR capability as a standard in the HDTV arena will ensure that Sky+'s 6000,000 subscribers would continue to enjoy control and flexibility in association with the highest-quality programming. From :- Advanced Television .com

 The European Information & Communications Technology Industry Association has announced a standard for HD Ready labeling of TVs, plasma screens and other HD displays. "The “HD ready” label is fully supported by Europe’s national broadcasters. More info :- www.digitalspy.co.uk/article/ds18570.html

 Sony, has forecast that 20m European households will have high definition TV (HDTV) sets by 2008. HDTV set prices – currently at £2,000 – would continue to fall, making them more of an attractive proposition to the mass consumer market. “Once you show HDTV people are hooked, says Chris Deering, Sony’s European CEO. (From Digital TV Group)

 European HDTV pioneer Euro1080 is to launch a second service, HD-2, in June 2005, with the emphasis on pay-per-event. Gabriel Fehervari, General Manager of Euro1080 also revealed that the operator would be using MPEG-4 encoding from that time. In addition to Euro1080’s involvement with SES-Astra, Fehervari confirmed that he had secured distribution deals on alternative satellites such as Sirius, Hellas Sat and Turksat, as well as some 20 cable networks. (From Advanced Television.com & Colin Mann in London)

 Toshiba has won a major victory in the battle to determine the standard for next-generation DVD’s with the endorsement by four Hollywood studios of its High Definition-DVD format. Paramount Pictures, Universal Pictures, New Line Cinema and Warner Brothers their supported the HD-DVD format advocated by Toshiba and NEC. Universal Pictures said it would come out with titles in the format during the 2005 holiday season while Paramount committed to bringing content out on HD-DVD in 2006. The support of the Hollywood studios gives a strong boost to the Toshiba camp, which is competing with a group led by Sony to standardise the next generation of optical recording technology. Sony is leading a group of consumer electronics and PC manufacturers promoting the rival Blu-ray Disc format.

 The EBU Technical Committee has recommended that Emission standards for HDTV should be based on progressive scanning: 720p/50 is currently the optimum solution, but 1080p/50 is an attractive option for the longer term. Although there are strong technical arguments in favour of progressive scanning for emission, the EBU Technical Committee recognises that some broadcasters might wish to broadcast 1080I-programme material. As consumer electronics equipment (e.g. set-top boxes and displays) will accept both 720p and 1080I formats, broadcasters will be able to select either of these formats * even on a programme-by-programme basis. Taking into account that production and emission standards do not need to be identical, further EBU studies on Production standards for HDTV in Europe are in progress. This work is not intended to result in a recommendation for a single standard for HDTV production. ( From TeleSatellite)

 Pace has announced plans to make high definition compatible set-top boxes available to satellite and cable operators across Europe. The DS840 digital satellite box offers an embedded Irdeto conditional access system to allow viewers to subscribe to the services of Euro1080, the HD channel launched in 2004. ( From Wotsat & D.S. Details:- http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/article/ds15751.html )

 NTL tests HDTV over ADSL2+ See story below in Cable Ends

 When SKY launches its HDTV service it aims to have 7 HDTV Channels broadcasting in total. (Thanks Andyk22k)

 bmsgharris found this for you to try:- www.hd-1.tv

 D.S. reader ginga has found this interesting article:- http://www.homecinemachoice.com/cgi-...ws.php?id=7347

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 SMS text messages can now be sent and received using a Telewest landline. Sending a message over the Telewest network will cost 10p (7p if the subscriber is on the Talk Mobile package) and will require the subscriber to have the Caller Display feature on their phone line, in addition to having a text-enabled phone. Incoming texts are free - and for those with a standard phone, it will be read out by an automated voice instead of being displayed on a text-enabled phone's screen.

 NTL tests HDTV over ADSL2+In a financial presentation, Britain's biggest cable operator confirmed that the trials of ADSL2+ had first started in February with a view to providing Internet access speeds of over 18Mbps downstream. The top tier of consumer broadband service currently available to NTL customers is 3Mbps downstream. Full article:- http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/article/ds20194.html

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Other Stuff
A full line-up of Sky’s EPG can be found
Here:- http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/satellite/epg/
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Audio description in programmes for ITV1(London) and Channel 4
Are available to all Sky subscribers on 963 and 964
http://www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/pr…scription.shtml

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Get a free Satellite Locator poster here:-
www.globecast.com/
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If you are into DTT as well as Digisat you might find this interesting.
http://www.dtt-tx-info.org/dso.html

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If you are fed up constantly having to phone an 0870 or similar to Sky’s Subscriber Centre and you have the option of being able to phone any national number in your phone bundle in effect “Free” (Telewest and BT etc; Have similar call charges). Then Lakhvinder Baddhan over at www.media247.co.uk/skydigital has numbers that fall within your bundle and won’t cost you any more than you already pay
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[Chris E]

"Radio" on 934 is currently broadcasting Vatican Radio.

[daniel99]

Avatest on 11.546H is for AVAGO Interactive.

Radio Ruderham, there is lots of mistakes on your list:

5719.......12.324V
52567.....11.426V
52107.....11.264H sr 22.0 fec 2/3

I get no signal found


7521.....12.441H - No signal, but at 12.422H i can get it

[YorkshireTV]

Thanks as always for the update RR!

[Digi Man]

I am having trouble getting this one 10.773 H, whats the Symbol Rate and FEC?

Edit- Well I got there in the end ( 22.0, 5,6 ).

[Lunar]

http://www.quiztelly.com Goes live today

[Scalper Jack]

Originally Posted by Lunar

http://www.quiztelly.com Goes live today

Says May 10th on that site. What the hell is it? :-/

[Radio Ruderham]

Originally Posted by c.barber

Radio Ruderham, there is lots of mistakes on your list:

5719.......12.324V
52567.....11.426V
52107.....11.264H sr 22.0 fec 2/3

I get no signal found


7521.....12.441H - No signal, but at 12.422H i can get it

Ok my friend, sorry it's taken so long to get back to this.
I have rechecked the freq's and they are as follows;-

5719........12.324 V
52107......11.264 (sr 22.000 fec 2/3) watch for this.
52567......11.426 V.

(7521.....12.441H - No signal, but at 12.422 H i can get it)
This was a mistake and has been corrected for Wed;

Can any-one else give Confirmation of these as this is how they appear on my digibox.

Thanks for your indulgence.

[jeremybailey]

is fashion tv going to be either part of the family pack, or fta, or ftv.

Jeremy

Originally Posted by Radio Ruderham

Ok my friend, sorry it's taken so long to get back to this.
I have rechecked the freq's and they are as follows;-

5719........12.324 V
52107......11.264 (sr 22.000 fec 2/3) watch for this.
52567......11.426 V.

Can any-one else give Confirmation of these as this is how they appear on my digibox.

Thanks for your indulgence.

Thankyou

[Radio Ruderham]

51006.............11.662 H (Thanks Digi man) Now has a 'Phillips' type card and tone

[Digi Man]

4200………………11.343 V Blue Screen.

This now seems to have changed label to 52300.

Also-

NEW


52345..............11.343 V.

[skyisthebest]

The label "4200" has changed to "52300" on 11.343 V and is showing a channel upgrade screen.

A new label has appeared on this frequency labelled "52345" and is showing coloured bars and red banner withscrolling text saying "Video Lock Error: Ident Mode"

[daniel99]

Originally Posted by jeremybailey

is fashion tv going to be either part of the family pack, or fta, or ftv.

Jeremy

I just took my card out and Fashion TV seems to be Encrypted.

Originally Posted by Radio Ruderham

51006.............11.662 H (Thanks Digi man) Now has a 'Phillips' type card and tone

Globecast............ I hope we see some feeds

[Harshad]

3310 showing black picture, let's hope for feeds here too

[Harshad]

Originally Posted by daniel99

I just took my card out and Fashion TV seems to be Encrypted.

Well that's Sly for you, pay pay pay even for the minor channels.

[Paddy C]

10.744, H, 22.0, 5/6 = 9604 is showing RTÉ ONE, instead of TWO. This changes constantly, so it's not best to say it's only testing one channel, but actually both. Also, where did the 18th of April date come from for the NI launch of the 3 Irish channels. Has this been officially confirmed?

Paddy

[Blofeld]

Can I just ask how it is every week that RR manages to produce this list of frequencies and news?

Do you source it out from other people and compile it all, or do you site with a pend and paper, and remote in one hand and start from a certain frequency and work your way through them, jotting down things that are new?

Dont get me wrong, its a very valuable serivce which is provided each week, and indded keeps me occupied inputting all these frequencies into my didgibox and storing the channels, but I wonder just how you get all the information.

[Harshad]

I guess you go to Lyngsat, look at all the transponders one by one and see what pops up, or use a FTA receiver which will tune all the channels, you can see what's new then.

[Chris E]

Originally Posted by daniel99

I just took my card out and Fashion TV seems to be Encrypted.

Sounds about right, the reason they left Sky is because they wanted to join the family pack. Sky must have gave in to them.

[Lunar]

Originally Posted by 2fabiola

Says May 10th on that site. What the hell is it? :-/

It's to games channels (Avago, Nation217, FriendlyTV, HollywoodTV etc...) what ShoppingTelly (http://www.shoppingtelly.com) is to shopping channels

Goes behind the scenes, has info about them etc..

[Otis]

10.892 GHz H SR:22000 FEC:5/6 Label: '10165' ITV 1 *FTA* ...

[Radio Ruderham]

Originally Posted by Blofeld

Can I just ask how it is every week that RR manages to produce this list of frequencies and news?

Do you source it out from other people and compile it all, or do you site with a pend and paper, and remote in one hand and start from a certain frequency and work your way through them, jotting down things that are new?

Dont get me wrong, its a very valuable serivce which is provided each week, and indded keeps me occupied inputting all these frequencies into my didgibox and storing the channels, but I wonder just how you get all the information.

Hi Blofeld
One thing you can be assured of is on this thread ALL the contributers usually beat Lyngsat and others by at least 48hrs, and I suppose I do sit in front of the box going through each and every Transponder, but then others do it as well. that's why we are so fast and up to date.
It's not just me it's everyone who has a snippet or a wee rumour maybe, folk that work for sky some who don't.
If you want to know, come here.

Thank-you, your appreciation is duly noted in the "Gold Star box" over in the corner there!!